Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Elder of Ziyon
We are now more than two months into the "reconciliation" between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, much of which only occurred because the PA imposed a crippling siege on Gaza of electricity, fuel and medicines that was ignored by the world.
And yet the siege continues.
Israel does not limit medicines or medical equipment into Gaza (with the exception of a tiny number of devices that need to be approved individually because they contain radioactive material or the like.)
But the Palestinian Authority does limit them. And the world, obsessed with Israel's blockade, ignores the things that Mahmoud Abbas does to his own people, not unlike Syria's Assad.
Gaza health officials are alarmed as the shortage of medicines and other medical needs have reached a critical point.
There is now a shortage of materials needed for blood tests, such as tests for hepatitis C and B tests and HIV tests. There is also a shortage of PKU tests for newborns, and for thyroid diseases.
Also, anti-rejection drugs for people who have received organ transplants.
Out of 657 laboratory items needed, 383 of them are down to zero and 274 will run out within three months.
Israel's restriction of materials to Gaza did not kill anyone (I did not see any such claims in Arab media) but these shortages, mandated by Mahmoud Abbas on his own people for some seven months already, are resulting in deaths.
So, where are the "human rights" NGOs complaining about the humanitarian crisis? Where is the media?
They are discussing how a 18 year old "child" was arrested for assaulting a soldier on video.
Gaza? Who cares? Certainly not the media and the NGOs when Israel cannot be blamed.
(Also in Gaza, the companies that clean hospitals are on strike, due to not getting paid. Surgeries are being cancelled. I don't know who is responsible for their salaries, but once again Gaza woes only make news when they can be blamed on Jews. Certainly the "pro-Palestinian" crowd doesn't care about their precious pets.)
